1. Enacting policy: the capacity of school leaders to support early career teachers through policy work.
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Sullivan, Anna and Morrison, Chad
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EDUCATION policy ,SUPERVISION of beginning teachers ,EDUCATIONAL leadership ,TEACHER induction ,TEACHER-principal relationships ,TEACHERS' workload ,PSYCHOLOGICAL resilience - Abstract
Early career teachers often feel overwhelmed by the complex, intense and unpredictable nature of their work. Recently, policy initiatives have been introduced to provide new teachers with extra release-time from face-to-face classroom teaching duties to assist them in their transition to the workforce. This paper reports on a critical policy study that investigated the enactment of this policy initiative. A data set was created from a larger qualitative study which investigated early career teacher resilience. Drawing on a policy enactment theoretical 'toolbox', the findings indicate that school leaders can empower early career teachers to move beyond being 'receivers' of policy to assume a more active policy role. This paper argues that school leaders are very powerful in their capacity to enact policy to ensure strategic access to appropriate on-going learning opportunities to support early career teachers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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